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There were no meetings during the summer months.
October 29, 1929. Dr. Samuel Clement Burchell (by invitation): 'Dostoievski and the Sense of Guilt'. The unconscious sense of guilt as
one of the motivating factors in Dostoievski's life and letters. The attitude toward the father, and the relationship between the onset of Dostoievski's epilepsy and the murder of his father. This situation the basis of the Brothers Karamazoff, where the father-son relationship was described by Dostoievski with great psychological insight, using the four sons as four psychic attitudes. In Crime and Punishment the crime bore the structure of an obsessional neurosis, the leading character committing the crime in order to bring about punishment. Many of Dostoievski's activities, in particular the ten-year gambling period, were shown to have been unconscious agents of self-punishment.
At the executive session Dr. Henry Alden Bunker, Jr., and Dr. Gregory Zilboorg were elected to active membership.
November 19, 1929. Special Meeting. The President, Dr. A. A. Brill, read the Protocol of the Proceedings of the International Congress at Oxford. The most important issue was the discussion of the acceptance of Lay Analysis in America. After a discussion lasting one and a half hours the following amendment to the constitution under Article III, Section V, was adopted: 'Non-medical persons may become members of the Society under conditions defined in the bye-laws. They shall be designated Fellows.'
The office of Corresponding Secretary was abolished, and this duty was to be assumed by the Recording Secretary.
November 26, 1929.
a.Dr. Gregory Zilboorg: Review of Alexander's and Staub's book The Criminal and his Judges. The evolution of the concept of justice was broadly sketched and the need for society to make changes within itself was indicated in order to render justice really just.
b.Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe: 'What Price Healing?' Three case-histo